Associate Professor of Psychology, Psychology Honors Program Director
Ph.D. Ohio State University
Area: Social

Contact Information

Email: dsekaqua@umich.edu
Psychology Office: 3231 East Hall
Psychology Phone: 734-647-9685

Research and Teaching Interests

My experimental research program focuses on implicit stereotyping, prejudice, stereotype threat, and effects of category salience on test performance and academic motivation. My current projects include studies of how environmental factors influence women students in math and science, and how stereotypes affect interracial communication.

Representative Publications

• Sekaquaptewa, D., and Thompson, M. (2002). The differential effects of solo status on members of high and low status groups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 694-707.
• Sekaquaptewa, D., Espinoza, P., Thompson, M., Vargas, P., and von Hippel, W. (2003). Stereotypic explanatory bias: Implicit stereotyping as a predicot of discrimination. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 75-82.
• Sekaquaptewa, D., and Thompson, M. (2003). Solo status, stereotypes, and performance expectancies: Their effects on women's public performance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 68-74.
• Sekaquaptewa, D., and Espinoza, P. (2004). Biased processing of stereotype-incongruency is greater for low than high status groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 128-135.
• Kiefer, A.K., Sekaquaptewa, D., & Barczyk, A. (2006). When appearance concerns make women look bad: Solo status and body image concerns diminish women's academic performance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 78-86.
• Vargas, P., Sekaquaptewa, D., von Hippel, W. (2007). Armed only with paper and pencil: "Low-tech" measures of implicit attitudes. In B. Wittenbrink and N. Schwarz (Eds.) Implicit Measures of Attitiudes, pp.103-124.
• Kiefer, A.K. and Sekaquaptewa, D. (2007). Implicit stereotypes, gender identification, and math-related outcomes: A prospective study of female college students. Psychological Science. 18, 13-18.
• Sekaquaptewa, D., Waldman, A., and Thompson, M. (in press). Solo status and self-construal: Being distinctive influences racial self-construal and performance apprehension in African American women. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.
• Keller, J., and Sekaquaptewa, D. (in press). Solo status and Women's Spatial Ability Performance: The Role of Self-Construal. European Journal of Social Psychology..

Honors and Awards

• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Ohio State University, 1993-96.
• Rackham Faculty Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1999-2000.
• National Science Foundation (Grant No. 91833). "Solo Status and Self-Construals." D. Sekaquaptewa, PI. $18,000, University of Michigan, 2006.
• NSF ADVANCE: Elizabeth Caroline Crosby Award. "Gender Stereotypes and WOmen's Math-Related Outcomes: An Intervention Study." University of Michigan, 2006.
• Fellow, National Center for Institutional Diversity, 2007-08.

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